Saturday, January 31, 2009

Am I officially cool now?

I have joined all the cool people. NO - I have not joined Facebook. I have not had plastic surgery. I don't have an iPhone, and I haven't been spotted on TMZ.com.

I have a Roomba. It's roaming around seemingly randomly right now. It's FABULOUS!

Somehow my vague flu symptoms have improved and I'm upright out of bed just to watch and report on it. It doesn't fit under our sofa (we'll have to jack them up so the Roomba can have great fulfillment), and when it transitions from hardwood to carpet it leaves a little hair bunny, but using the Dyson for 30 seconds to run along the edge of the carpet is sooo much easier than having to vacuum everything with the Dyson.

And this is waaay more entertaining!

Based on the sudden magical improvement in health I have received from the Roomba, I have 7 miles in the morning! Yay me! Yay Roomba!

PS - Already had sad Roomba sounds. It went into one of the kids bedrooms and tried to suck up something that it shouldn't. This thing needs some sort of RFID chip - I'm walking down the hall calling to it. "Roomba? Rooombaaaaa? Where are you???" I found it huddled beside the door like it was trying to get back to me. This thing is so anthropomorphic and it doesn't even LOOK human!

2 comments:

momof3 said...

Oh yes, you are totally COOL now. Welcome to the modern age. If you're like me, then this is your first iRobot. I am listening to the comforting whir of my Roomba as it flits from room to room right now.

Does it do the same job as a dyson? No. Let's be serious though, if it runs 7 days a week, does it do a better job than a dyson sitting in the bottom of the linen closet doing nothing at all? Yes. Yes it does.

Happy Vacuuming.

SpeeDee said...

Pout...B won't let me get one. And to think I could have asked for a third dog!